Mid-term Exam

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Question 1: Who stepped in and saved the Jamestown colony?
Jon Stokes
Thomas Jefferson
John Smith
Patrick Henry

Question 2: What cash crop turned the fortunes of Jamestown around?
Cotton
Hanja
Wood
Tobacco "brown gold"

Question 3: Poor farmers and settlers versus rich eastern planters in VA over protection from Indians.
Atlantic's Rebellion
Jamestown's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion
Turkey's Rebellion

Question 4: Which early colony war sowed the seeds of the American Revolution?
Mexican War
Philippine War
War of the Worlds
French and Indian War

Question 5: Why did the French and Indian War happen?
Because I said so.
Because the English taxed colonies to pay for the war.
Because it did.
Because that's what happened.

Question 6: Town Hall meetings exhibited their belief in citizen participation.
West
Middle
Southern
New England

Question 7: Rich land owners were called Cavaliers.
West
New England
Middle
Southern

Question 8: They agreed to live under agreed upon laws such as the mayflower compact.
Middle
West
New England
Southern

Question 9: This group included a penal colony.
New England
Southern
Middle
West

Question 10: They were religiously tolerant and included Quakers and Catholics.
Southern
New England
West
Middle (Pennsylvania=Quakers, Maryland=Catholics)

Question 11: Social status and participation in the colonial government were limited to church members.
West
Southern
Middle
New England

Question 12: Status and wealth depended on land ownership.
West
Southern
New England
Middle

Question 13: The Salem Witch trials were an example of their religious intolerance.
Middle
West
New England
Southern

Question 14: The House of Burgesses was the first representative body in these colonies.
New England
West
Middle
Southern

Question 15: They relied heavily on a plantation economy and slavery.
New England
Middle
West
Southern

Question 16: American colonists had no representation in the English Parliament meant _______.
You will get married
You will fail if you don't study
You are stupid
Taxation without representation

Question 17: What did Thomas Paine write that was a pamphlet listing grievances against King George III.
The Census
The Dec. of Ind.
Common Sense
General Knowledge

Question 18: It was a minor skirmish but the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at...?
Jamestown
Lexington and Concord
Petersburg
Virginia Beach

Question 19: What was the first major battle of the American Rev.?
Richmond Battle
Tappahannock
Jamestown
Bunker Hill

Question 20: Washington crossed the Delaware River and defeated the Hessians at the Battle of ______.
Trenton, NJ
New York City
Atlanta, GA
Va. Bch., VA

Question 21: What is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War?
Burger King
Harrisonburg
Jamestown
Saratoga

Question 22: Why was Saratoga the turning point of the Rev. War?
Because it was.
Because that's just the way it is.
Because you will get this answer right on the exam.
It brought the French into the war on the side of the Americans.

Question 23: The British surrendered after the Battle of _______.
Yorktown
Petersburg
Miami
Jamestown

Question 24: What made this battle an American Victory?
Because they're good.
French fleet blockaded the Chesapeake Bay.
Because they won.
Because it just was.

Question 25: What was the greatest weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
Couldn't raise taxes
They couldn't do ANYTHING!
They were ill.
They were whack.

Question 26: What issue was a source of major disagreement at the Constitutional Convention?
Their blouses.
The hair styles.
Representation in Congress.
Their shoes.

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